Chance and Counters

Chance and Counters Bristol's first board gaming cafe. 600+ board games, banging food & drink + wonderful staff.
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Thanks for humouring this little gang of April fools, we rather enjoyed ourselves 😂Back in the land of truth. Easter hol...
02/04/2024

Thanks for humouring this little gang of April fools, we rather enjoyed ourselves 😂

Back in the land of truth. Easter holidays are well upon us now and you know what that means: Kids Play Free, weekdays til 4pm!

So bring the sprogs down and together we’ll show ‘em how much cooler board games are than Roblox... (is that what they're playing these days?!)

Over the past 8 years we’ve had our name misspelled in every way you could imagine. On everything from CVs to national n...
01/04/2024

Over the past 8 years we’ve had our name misspelled in every way you could imagine. On everything from CVs to national newspaper coverage.

We get it. To be honest it’s a pain in the arse having to spell it out EVERY. TIME. on the phone, and then explain there’s no ampersand in our email addresses 🫠

We put a lot of time into it but there comes a point you just have to go with what people know you as…

So. As of today, we’re somewhat begrudgingly changing our name to Chance Encounters.

Same business, same vibes, slightly worse but infinitely easier to spell name. We tried but we’re tired.

Team CE ###

FREE BEER ANYONE? The lovely people at Wiper and True have released a 0.5% version of their ICONIC pale ale, Kaleidoscop...
09/01/2024

FREE BEER ANYONE?

The lovely people at Wiper and True have released a 0.5% version of their ICONIC pale ale, Kaleidoscope, and we’re teaming up for a little Dry Jan special as part of their Month of Fundays.

On Tuesday 16th Jan at our Gloucester Road café, as a little bolt on to our usual Social Gaming night we're giving away 100+ pints of Kaleidoscope and Tomorrow (the equally smashable low-alcohol lager).

It's free to come down and play and drink, just grab a ticket via Headfirst here and we will see you there ✌️ https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/chance-counters-gloucester-road-/tue-16-jan-keg-party-wiper-true-x-chance-counters--101087

Christmas / New Year opening hours in case you're planning on stopping by over the next couple of weeks 🥳
20/12/2023

Christmas / New Year opening hours in case you're planning on stopping by over the next couple of weeks 🥳

Be rude not to wouldn't it!? 🍾🎇⁠⁠Tickets for our NYE bash at the Gloucester Road café are live on the website! We'll be ...
29/11/2023

Be rude not to wouldn't it!? 🍾🎇⁠
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Tickets for our NYE bash at the Gloucester Road café are live on the website!

We'll be starting proceedings with a big old quiz... Got our finest minds from each café contributing a round of questions so you know it's gonna be good (or at the very least "interesting"). ⁠
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Can't even tell you precisely what to expect because it's a secret even to us (but board games and nonsense relating to board games will absolutely be involved). ⁠
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£25pp, 7 til late, you know the drill! WE'RE SO EXCITED!!!

https://www.chanceandcounters.com/product/new-years-eve-party-cc/

28/11/2023

When you surprise even yourself with your IMPECCABLE BALANCING SKILLS 🙏...

We've got the lovely Alex coming to visit us on Saturday, the designer of Misfits - our new favourite balancing game.

12 - 4pm (Christmas Steps).
5 - close (Gloucester Road).

Book yourselves in if you fancy being among the first to try it... Coming to the retail shelves SOON too 👀

07/11/2023

Heads up all - we're moving tonight's Playtesting event to our Gloucester Road site just for this week! We've got a big private hire at Christmas Steps so space is going to be a bit tight there. Sorry for the short notice 😅

Five stars across the board lessgooo! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⁠⁠You know when you walk past a police officer and instantly feel like you've...
02/11/2023

Five stars across the board lessgooo! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⁠
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You know when you walk past a police officer and instantly feel like you've committed a thousand heinous crimes and they're 100% on to you, even though you definitely haven't and they're definitely not? ⁠
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That’s what EHO inspections are like. And we had three of them in ONE DAY swiftly followed by a fourth the week after 🥴⁠
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Big up all our clean teams and kitchen titans, never in doubt 👏👏

🚨 KIDS PLAY FREE: HALF TERM EDITION 🚨⁠⁠This went down so well over Summer we had to bring it back! ⁠⁠Bring your budding ...
23/10/2023

🚨 KIDS PLAY FREE: HALF TERM EDITION 🚨⁠
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This went down so well over Summer we had to bring it back! ⁠
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Bring your budding gamers down any weekday daytimes over half term and they won't pay ANY gaming fees. Or more accurately you won't pay anything on their behalf 😅

Valid Mon - Fri til 4pm any day this week!

After MUCH deliberation following our Game Jam event at Christmas Steps, we finally have a winner…⁠⁠We challenged eight ...
20/10/2023

After MUCH deliberation following our Game Jam event at Christmas Steps, we finally have a winner…⁠
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We challenged eight teams to create a game in 7 days using a VERY limited set of components, based around our chosen theme: sweets!⁠
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It was a suuuuper tough decision, but overall we were most impressed by the simplicity and the potential of 'Pick N Mix’ designed by Phil McNeil - a game all about saving up your pocket money to buy sweets from the tuck shop 🍬
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We’ve sent it over to our pals at Big Potato for them to test it and give some helpful feedback, and Phil can come in to our Christmas Steps venue to claim the £25 gift voucher. Congrats Phil and thanks to all for a very fun and incredibly fierce competition!

It's time... 💀🎃⁠⁠We're throwing a bunch of Halloween parties on Monday 30th October (e.g. the second scariest day of the...
03/10/2023

It's time... 💀🎃⁠
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We're throwing a bunch of Halloween parties on Monday 30th October (e.g. the second scariest day of the year after Halloween itself) and you're all invited!⁠
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£35pp including all the food, drink & gaming you could possibly want. Come party with us and mourn being too old to trick or treat 🎻 😭⁠
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Get your tickets here! https://www.chanceandcounters.com/product/spooky-night-2023/

Address

20 Christmas Steps
Bristol
BS15BS

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 11pm
Tuesday 10am - 11pm
Wednesday 10am - 11pm
Thursday 10am - 12am
Friday 10am - 12am
Saturday 10am - 12am
Sunday 10am - 11pm

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